How do ppl stay all skinny back then in the 60s and 70s without all the current gym craze and fad diets?🤔🤔🤔

No gyms, no fad diets, ppl ate normal food just like us nowadays (with all the sweets, junk and whatnot), yet somehow overweight ppl were nearly non-existent back in the 60s and 70s.😌😌😌

Meanwhile ppl nowadays r counting every calories they put into their mouths, going 2 gyms regularly and deliberately starving themselves day after day with all sorts of fad diets (like keto, cico, paleo, carnivore, intermittent, liquid etc.) yet ppl somehow still manage 2 stay fat nowadays.😩😩😩

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SomeMichGuy · M

On what do you base this, considering that you were probably born in the 21st century?

lisasweety · 22-25, F

@SomeMichGuy have u ever watched old films of the 70s and 80s and wondered why every1 on the streets were super fit?? like LITERALLY every person on the streets were fit back then??🤔🤔🤔 i also havent heard of any diet fads or gym craze back then so of course i do wonder what kind of black magic ppl were using 2 keep themselves fit??🤔🤔🤔

SomeMichGuy · M

@lisasweety Which films do you mean?

There have always been overweight people. Look at Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra; her hands/arms show that she was no slim gal.

Of course, there was not a push to overeat as a fetish, to get fat on purpose, which is, sadly, an actual thing, now.

And somehow the reaction against "fat shaming" has become "fat-promoting", including calling overweight women "BBWs"...

lisasweety · 22-25, F

@SomeMichGuy [quote]to get fat on purpose[/quote] i doubt ppl even try 2 get fat on purpose nowadays anymore considering how easy it is nowadays 4 ppl 2 gain weight... i literally have 2 count every calorie i eat every day just 2 keep myself from ballooning up...

lisasweety · 22-25, F

@SomeMichGuy [quote]"fat shaming" has become "fat-promoting"[/quote]
sorry i have 2 disagree on this but i think the body positive movement nowadays is just a reactionary movement against the pressure 4 girls 2 be thin that was commonplace in the 90s and 2000s...

SomeMichGuy · M

@lisasweety
[quote]i doubt ppl even try 2 get fat on purpose nowadays anymore [/quote]

Actually, it IS an ongoing, more recent trend. There are some ppl who desire this...

SomeMichGuy · M

@lisasweety LOL Women have been forced to be thin long before the 1990s. Look up Karen Carpenter.

"Body-positive" should not be "fat-promoting."

If your BMI is high,
It's helping you to die.

SomeMichGuy · M

@lisasweety Again, which films do you mean?